Domestic Violence
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Why domestic abuse is such a difficult subject for churches
But sometimes they can help perpetuate abuse by failing to offer support when needed. Ava Kanyeredzi The Conversation There can…
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In regional Australia, many domestic violence victims have ‘nowhere to go’
Grace’s mother Jessica Kupsch was violently killed by her partner in 2012. Manika Champ ABC News Matthew Patrick Tunks is…
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Report due on ‘failings’ for fatal family
NSW Coroner Teresa O’Sullivan is due to release her findings and recommendations on Wednesday into the deaths of Jack and…
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Three women in Istanbul
I am quite certain that I never will. Nicholas Karides It is a city that conjures two key references for…
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A shocking statistical fact that will change the way you think about the gender pay gap
Our research linking domestic violence to gender income balance is a world first. Authors The Conversation We are astounded by…
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Hannah Clarke’s parents push for coercive control to be made a crime one year on from horrific murders
Hannah and her children Aaliyah, 6, Laianah, 4, and Trey, 3, were ambushed by her estranged husband Rowan Baxter in…
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Domestic violence soars after natural disasters. Preventing it needs to be part of the emergency response
It usually involves physical and psychological violence perpetrated by men against women and children, but it can also include an…
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‘Nowhere is safe’: Colombia confronts alarming surge in femicides
When authorities pulled the lifeless body of four-year-old María Ángel Molina out of a river in rural Colombia on 13 January,…
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Reluctance to report family violence ‘a lot worse than we thought’
That’s the conclusion of a University of Melbourne study led by Professor Marcia Langton published by ANROWS which examined cross-border…
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‘Intimate terrorism’: why the murders of Hannah, Aaliyah, Laianah and Trey must spark change
The crime shocked the country, and strengthened calls to criminalise coercive control. Madonna King The Age “Lou, I think he’s…
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‘If you call 000 … I will send you back to your country’: how COVID-19 has trapped temporary visa holders
It was also feared that, at the same time, conditions would prevent women from coming forward. Authors The Conversation We…
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Beenham Valley Road
Six years on, the wheels of justice are finally starting to turn. Mayeta Clark Australian Story It was code 2:…
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Coercive control: why is this form of intimate terrorism still legal?
Also known as “intimate terrorism”, coercive control is both a predictor of murder and an insidious and private form of…
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Coroner demands culturally-safe support for women after suicide ‘cluster’
Normally he’d attend two a year, but within months a suicide cluster among vulnerable migrant women of South Asian background…
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Women facing violence need protection — and their visa status shouldn’t matter
Visa status shouldn’t get in the way of that. Gina Rushton Crikey The following story contains descriptions of domestic violence.…
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Time to admit our national shame
Those who think that anger dies have never met Phil Cleary – whose sister, Vicki, was murdered 33 years ago…
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